Matthew Mack

Matthew (Joe) Mack (1867-1951) was a New Zealand trade unionist and political activist.

Political activity

Born in Wellington, New Zealand in 1867, Mack was a railway guard and Secretary of the Amalgamated Society of Railway Servants (1908-27). Joe Mack stood as NZLP candidate for Parnell in 1911 but disliked the party's stance on conscription in WWI. In 1918 he contested the Wellington Central by-election as an Independent Labour-Protestant Political Association candidate and came a very creditable runner-up to Labour's Peter Fraser. Mack was President of the Alliance of Labour in 1924.

He died in 1951.

Further reading

Labour's Path to Political Independence: the Origins and Establishment of the NZLP 1900-19 by Barry Gustafson (1980, Oxford University Press, Auckland)

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Name	Mack, Matthew
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Date of birth	1867
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Date of death	1951
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